“…George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) discusses the possible consequences of a totalitarian government in a dystopian future. It has been the departure of several investigations and research papers on the influence of language on society. …”
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“…This paper aims to explore the valuable role of Sinclair Lewis as a writer in American literature, and to study the way in which he used totalitarian regimes as inspiration for his dystopian depiction of a fascist government in the United States in It Can’t Happen Here. …”
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“…The Second World War was the largest and the most violent armed conflict that opposed, between 1939 and 1945, the Allied countries with a democratic ideology and the Axis coalition with a totalitarian character. At the beginning of the war, the first block consisted of the United Kingdom, France, Poland, the United States of America, China and the Soviet Union. …”
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“…The first half of the 20th century, after the First World War, Europe was marked by totalitarian governments. Thus, Benito Mussolini's Italy, Adolf Hitler's Germany and Francisco Franco's Spain were three notable examples with consequences in the economic, social, political and, of course, sporting spheres. …”
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“…Chevalier’s focus is on the interwar period and its closeness to totalitarianism. Based on aspects from the theory of resilience (Cyrulnik 2006; Herman 1992; Vanistendael 2003), this article explores how the uses and meanings associated with cultural practices can turn them into resources for modulating grief and mobilising such resilience and agency in women’s lives, both from an individual and a social perspective. …”
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